Example sentences of "[vb past] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 2 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 3 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 4 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 5 | Hannele , sensing this , whipped down the buttons very quickly and , before pulling down his trousers , put her fingers into the flap of his white cotton underdrawers and freed it . |
| 6 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 7 | The agreement includes a vital clause stating that the Commission must examine the rates of duty laid down every two years , and for the first time no later than 31st December 1994 . |
| 8 | How good that wine tasted , if only because I secretly thought , what a rare old vintage I must be quaffing , laid down no doubt before the Battle of Trafalgar ! |
| 9 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 11 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 12 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 13 | The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground . |
| 14 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 15 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 16 | Major-General Frank Kitson , writing in 1977 , laid down a code of basic principles for the guidance of a government fighting terrorism . |
| 17 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 18 | Troops laid down a smokescreen to cover the rescue of the victims , who were not immediately named . |
| 19 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 20 | Mel Chin ( USA , b. 1951 ) laid down a field of plants which extract heavy metals from the ground by a process called hyperaccumulation , in his ‘ Revival field Netherlands : simultaneous replicated field experiments ’ . |
| 21 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 22 | The getaway driver , in a blue Ford , laid down a burst of suppressing fire , forcing the bodyguards to dive for cover . |
| 23 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 24 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 25 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 26 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 27 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 28 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 29 | The troops would n't leave the trenches , so the French generals laid down a barrage on them . |
| 30 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |